Takatsu Shingo

Takatsu Shingo is a baseball player. He plays for the Yakult Swallows,
a professional baseball team in the Japan League. He is a relief pitcher
with an underarm throw. His player number is 22.

When he was a high school student, he participated in "koshien",
the national high school baseball tournament. After he graduated from Hiroshima
Technical High School, he entered Asia University in Tokyo. He devoted
himself to playing baseball at that place. And after he graduated from
the university, he joined the Yakult Swallows through the draft conference.

Three years later, in 1993, his team won the Japan series thanks to
his efforts. His pitches very hard to hit. When he struck out the last
batter in the game to make a no-hitter, he became the winning pitcher and
at the same time became the king of relief pitchers.

Nowadays, three years later (1996), his team has been in a slump, but
we hope he can get out of the slump to win the Japan Series again.